p*dis sampler 2018.11

All songs written, recorded, performed, produced and mixed by Elsa Hewitt. Additional vocal samples on Everything Else and Rainbowz taken from a phonecall with Deqa Warsame. Released 7/4/2017. © ERH 2017 ℗ ERH 2017
Mastered by Kirk Barley.
Thank you Lewes, York, Paris and Leeds, and everyone I know in those places, for making sounds for me to capture during the making of this album.

cameras from mars

One Day Old Today

Lens Mozer - All My Friends

Axel Rigaud - New Land

Limited edition of 700 copies.
All tracks written, played by Muslimgauze.
Previously released on CD as part of Box Of Silk And Dogs (Muslimlim 013).

"Those not familiar with Jones’ style, will listen slack-jawed at the shear anticipatory nature of his sound collage. Initially released by Staalplaat in 1999 (the same year of his passing away) as part of the ‘Box Of Silk And Dogs’ comes out again as a double LP. He was a cult artist, politically motivated for the arab-palestinian cause and a seminal experimenter of the ethnical samples’ use with minimal and electronic rhythms. The atmospheres retain intact the original charm made out of full and gloomy, but pulsating in the provoked emotions, very different from the exotic and ornamental processing of certain world music. Drum machines, old synths, percussion, all combined in a traditional way, without any computer help. Sounds anyway already permeated with what will have come, drawing on different genres but always supporting a specific poetic. “Peace is a distant dream” Bryn Jones said, in one of his latest interviews. He died for a rare blood disease, and on both sizes things seem to unfortunately still be the same.
Ingaza is thematically and stylistically all over the place, sporting atmospheric instrumental loops one moment and jarring, heavily barbed and distorted beats the next. Differences between tracks, not unlike changing channels on TV or switching between net browsers, predominate, imagery conjuring Middle Eastern travel and tourism on one screen plays against grisly proxy war footage on the next. The only threads linking these tracks were made during Jones' grittier production-cum-dub days during the last years of his life.

Tracklist:

A1. Meesur
A2. Satsooma
A3. Pen Your Atlas, And Find Kurdistan
B1. Divotee, Lie With The Dogs
B2. Baljit With Copper Wire
B3. Silk And Mint.
B4. Kumari
C1. Banjari
C2. Sacrifice Pit
C3. Sandblind
C4. Hand Of Henna
C5. Moonshi
D1. Hamas Internet, Gaza
D2. Grass Of Sidi Bou Said
D3. Allah Will, Provide You Forfeit
D4. Temple Carcass
D5. Hamas Internet, Gaza

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A1. Meesur (track #1)

Boy is Fiction + Ghosts of Tyto Alba - Breathe

http://flau.jp/releases/plays-eight-compositions/

ensemble 0 is a band who plays the compositions by its members and music by other living composers. The members can change according to each project. The founding members live in France (Joël Merah), Spain (Stéphane Garin) and Belgium (Sylvain Chauveau), with a rotating set of musicians from Western Europe. In 2016 a section of ensemble 0 has been created in Brussels featuring Florent Garnier, Jean-François Brohée, and Chauveau. This trio has spent one and a half year composing new acoustic pieces, playing them live, recording and mixing them. This is the music for this album on flau: 8 tracks with percussion, harmonium, ebows and guitar, with the addition of Thomas Jean Henri (aka Cabane) and Antoine Pasqualini (aka Monolithe Noir) as guests.

The original idea of the Brussels section of ensemble 0 was to create an acoustic repertoire with few instruments, so that all the equipment could be carried to perform the music anywhere (in the street, in parks, in appartments and in music venues). Finally a few touches of electricity have been added on the album with the presence of Antoine Pasqualini’s modular synth.

ensemble 0 - Florent plays glockenspiel, JF plays ebows & guitar, Sylvain plays glockenspiel...

Album • https://Takeleave.lnk.to/InnerSea @takeleave

Inner Sea

BLUE 2LP/DIGITAL

PMC170 - Takeleave - Inner Sea - Album Teaser (Project: Mooncircle, 11/30/2018)

Taken from the album 'Enfolding'.
Release date: October 16, 2018 on Hidden Vibes.

Hidden Vibes on web:
hiddenvibes.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/hidevibes

offthesky - longior aura (obeisance i)

http://flau.jp/releases/algorithm-of-desire/

Lindsay Anderson (L'ALTRA/Telefon Tel Aviv) and John Hughes (Sliker/Hefty owner) teams up new project Sam Waves.

Algorithm of Desire

Same Waves - Song to Save Us All

Pre-Order Vinyl ~ http://bit.ly/ordermiddaymoon

Midday Moon is a survey of ambient and experimental music that emerged from Australia and New Zealand between 1980 and 1995. These recordings are sourced from a rich variety of micro-labels, private pressings, theatre soundtracks and artists’ personal archives.

Curated by Melbourne based DJ and archivalist, Sanpo Disco (a.k.a Rowan Mason), the collection delves deep into the world of outsider music that emerged in Australia and New Zealand in the latter half of the twentieth century, as synthesisers and early workstations began to enter the consumer marketplace.

'Midday Moon' out November 2 thru Bedroom Suck / Remote Control Records (AU/NZ), Omnian Music Group (USA/CAN) and Cargo Records (UK/EU). 

http://bedroomsuckrecords.com

Midday Moon 

Garry Havrillay - Temple

DR-54 : kj - ex (CD, ltd. 150)  / DL
Release page : https://dronarivm.com/2018/09/07/kj-ex/

ex, kj’s third album and dronarivm’s 54th release, is a wandering into the dark side of nostalgia — labyrinthian refrains evoke the mind’s tendency to reach for the past. 

for chris

mastered by rafael anton irisarri
cover photo by emiliano marinucci

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kj - caro (taken from 'ex')

BUY VINYL: http://www.darkentriesrecords.com/store/vinyl/kittin-cosmos-lp/
Reclaiming her original moniker of Kittin, electroclash pioneer  - formerly known as Miss Kittin -  presents Cosmos, a continuous twelve-track LP of organic, leftfield electronica due 2 November on Dark Entries. Throughout her illustrious career, Kittin has carved a considerable niche for herself, assimilating references from New Wave and 90s techno to form an inimitable sound that resonates with electronic music fans the world over. Despite being most recognizable with ‘Miss’ before it, Kittin was in fact her original artist name - the prefix often added without her consent at promoter’s will and eventually becoming the norm.  
Cosmos is her most spiritual release yet, influenced by her time in the French countryside after a bout of touring exhaustion. She gives up any formulas from her past; verses/chorus, pop or club beats, to come to the essence of chords and textures, peeling away the non-essential to find joy in music yet again.  In retrieving her chosen name from more than 20 years ago, Kittin also returns to the essence of her musical journey. By liberating herself from the constraints of formal structure she opens the door to a new set of aesthetics, exploring her influences without restraint. Sonically, the voice acts a central instrument, whilst the album drives continuously forward with no breaks, paying homage to her love for ambient and electronica whilst wandering calmly into the unknown. “With Cosmos everything is energy. We go back to the core with curiosity and freedom.” - Kittin

Cosmos

Kittin - Cosmos LP SNIPPETS

'A Gradual Decline' is the lead single taken from CUTS' forthcoming album of the same name.

The album is preceded by 'A Slow Decay' EP, which features the single alongside two new b-sides. 

Available here: https://VillageGreen.lnk.to/Izx6rWE

Watch the environmentally themed video for 'A Gradual Decline' here: https://vimeo.com/292900168

A Gradual Decline (MP3)

CUTS - A Gradual Decline

Since 1981, Wilfried Franzen and Thomas Grötz have been developing their own version of experimental pop music, which oscillates between song structures, noise, and psychedelic trance. Bass and keyboards form the instrumental substructure of the duo’s compositions, which are enriched with guitars, violin, piano, electronic percussions, and samples. After self-publishing various cassettes and cds, "Nachtwerk" is the first official release of SOLARIZE, which presents selected pieces from the years 1991 to 1998.
The two school friends started their musical collaboration in Papenburg in northwestern Germany. A self-empowerment related to Punk and Post-Punk served as a catalyst and encouraged them to develop their own musical cosmos. "We did not seek for a solid stylistic concept. Occasionally we used various genres and musical trends as inspiration. The typical result was not easily identifiable as New Wave, Trance, Intelligent Dance Music, Krautrock, and so on."
A special approach to music, characterized by a non-musical perspective i.e. the visual arts, has played an important role. This is almost inevitably a result of their subsidiary activities, working and articulating as visual artists and art historians.
Their creations made of sound emerged during their multi-day retreats were almost never played again afterwards. "Everything that we got our hands on served as an instrument, no matter whether we were able to play it or not – as long as it matched our musical visions. The outcome was documented with simple tape recorders and later with 4-track devices." By this way, SOLARIZE produced more than 250 songs and instrumentals over a period of almost 20 years.
"Nachtwerk" brings together everything that makes up the unspecified stylistic, yet consistent approach of SOLARIZE: bright and sunny melodies, creaky violin and e-bow trips, seriously fiddled compositions, polyrhythmic dense ambient landscapes, teaspoon- samples with interview sections, and dramatic piano excursuses.

Nachtwerk

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Solarize - Nachtwerk (Snippets)

Anne Lovett’s stunning new release for 1631 is a departure from her beautiful previous solo piano album Beyond (and below). Without loosing any of the startling beauty of the preceding album, in The Eleventh Hour, Anne Lovett revels in a new sonic world. Joined by the London Contemporary Orchestra , UK’s most innovative and respected ensemble routinely heard alongside such luminaries as Radiohead or Johnny Greenwood, and later in duo with phenomenal cellist and composer Oliver Coates, Anne Lovett also introduces subtle electronics interwoven carefully alongside layered melodic piano lines.

The main narrative for the album was conceived shortly after a new addition was brought in to Anne’s studio, a plantation chair which sat opposite her Grotrian-Steinweg grand piano. It led to intense hours of rethinking around the instrument itself and more generally about the seismic shifts that were taking place in society. The album is an attempt to reconcile the flaws of time. 

Best described by the Japanese concept of Kintsugi or “broken beauty”, The Eleventh Hour is a heartbreakingly beautiful contribution to the modern “indie” classical genre. The thirteen tracks all meticulously crafted and ringing out with a dark luminosity, like an elegy to our troubled times. 

It will appeal to fans of Dustin O’Halloran, Nils Frahm, Max Richter, Philipp Glass, Jóhann Jóhannson who will find many reasons to love this album .

www.1631recordings.bandcamp.com/album/the-eleventh-hour

The Eleventh Hour

Anne Lovett - The Eleventh Hour

Endless Melancholy​ - ''Fragments of Scattered Whispers' 
Label; Dronarivm 
Cat #.: DR-55
Format: LP (ltd. 100), CD (ltd. 150),  DL
Release date: November 9th, 2018
Pre-orders start October 19th

'Fragments of Scattered Whispers' is the sixth album from Endless Melancholy, a solo-project of Oleksiy Sakevych from Kyiv, Ukraine. It follows previous releases on labels such as Preserved Sound, 1631 Recordings and Hidden Vibes. 

Arriving on CD, digital and heavyweight vinyl editions, 'Fragments of Scattered Whispers' is a collection of soft piano melodies and transparent ambient textures, gently flowing one into another. On this album Endless Melancholy continues with the tape sound explorations, started on his previous album 'The Vacation', but in a new, more distinctive way. On this occasion, Oleksiy teamed up with Krzysztof Sujata (known for his musical outfit Valiska), who did some outstanding job on processing the tracks through different kinds of tape recorders and mastering them afterwards. Accompanied by a stunning artwork by an acclaimed artist Gregory Euclide, 'Fragments of Scattered Whispers' is meant to evoke hazy reminiscences from the deepest corners of listener's mind, like a blurry photograph suddenly falling out of an old book.

Cover art by Gregory Euclide
Mastered by Krzysztof Sujata

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Endless Melancholy - Postcards (taken from 'Fragments of Scattered Whispers')

Pre-order Fallen Trees on LP/CD/DL: http://radi.al/MelnykFallenTrees

Continuous Music pioneer and literal force of nature Lubomyr Melnyk releases his new album 'Fallen Trees' on December 7th. Known as ‘the prophet of the piano’ due to his lifelong devotion to his instrument, the new album coincides with Melnyk's 70th birthday. 

Cascades of notes, canyons and rivers of sound: there’s something about Lubomyr Melnyk's music that channels the natural world at its most awe-inspiring. In Fallen Trees the connection with the environment continues, taking its cue from a long rail journey Melnyk made through Europe. Glancing out of the window as the train passed through a dark forest, he was struck by the sight of trees that had recently been felled. “They were glorious,” he says. “Even though they’d been killed, they weren’t dead. There was something sorrowful there, but also hopeful.” That sense of sadness touched by optimism infuses the album, too: rarely has Melnyk made music so shot through with melancholy and regret, but which sounds so rapt, even radiant.

The five-part, 20-minute Fallen Trees is one of the most ambitious and demanding pieces he has ever created. Though the music is – as ever – Melnyk’s own, Fallen Trees once again features a number of Erased Tapes artists. Japanese vocal artist Hatis Noit, whose first EP Illogical Dance came out to much acclaim earlier this year, lends ethereal vocals, floating mysteriously above the surface of Melnyk’s eddying piano lines before diving far beneath. Other contributors include Berlin-based cellist Anne Müller, a sometime collaborator with Nils Frahm, and American singer David Allred, the most recent addition to the label family. “More than any of the albums that I’ve done, it’s a real collaboration,” Melnyk insists, emphasising how much he owes to his producer, Erased Tapes founder Robert Raths.

It is true to say that there is nothing quite like Melnyk’s work: a unique musical pioneer, he has defiantly carved his own path. “I don’t say to people I’m a composer,” he declares. “I don’t know what I am.”

Melnyk composes, as he plays, at the piano, feeling out lines and individual rhythmic cells that bubble, undulate and gradually expand into vast, interlinked frameworks. Asked to describe what it’s like to live inside his music, he says “my whole body is transformed as I play, it honestly feels like that. My fingers feel like the winds of the world; it feels like you’re physically transcending dimensions.”

Despite the autumnal hint in its title, there’s little suggestion of Melnyk slowing down. Having received critical acclaim and co-headlining the prestigious Royal Festival Hall as part of the Erased Tapes 10th anniversary celebrations, after many years his audience is now both global and growing. The composer is finally gaining a momentum in his career that matches the vibrant, highly active energy of his playing.

Fallen Trees

Son of Parasol

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Lubomyr Melnyk - Son of Parasol

from the album 'submers' available on double lp for the first time 11/23

submers

loscil 'argonaut I'

Out on November 9th

https://bleep.com/release/110133-the-gasman-controlled-hallucination

Controlled Hallucination

Controlled Hallucination previews

Caballo Rojo es el nombre del segundo disco de Perlita, que según un periodista británico es “como unos Hot Chip con Freddie Mercury al frente”. El trio gaditano ha despachado un trabajo gigante, que tiene mucho hot, tiene mucho down y tiene mucho tempo. En Caballo Rojo suenan pop, ecos de la música popular andaluza, cajas de ritmos, voces japonesas, sintetizadores y versos de Juan Ramón Jiménez, entre otras muchas cosas.

No hay caballos rosas en el infierno…

Caballo Rojo sale el 9 de noviembre en @lovemonk

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Caballo Rojo (“red horse”) is the second album by Perlita, a band from Cádiz, Spain, once described by a British critic as “a Hot Chip fronted by Freddy Mercury”. For the follow-up to their 2016 debut Cangrejo Yeti (“yeti crab”), the threesome have come up with a titanic piece that, mood-wise, jumps around and gallops between pop, flashes of Andalusian folkloric music, drum machines, Japanese voices, synths and verses by Spanish poet and Nobel Prize laureate Juan Ramón Jiménez, among many other things.
 
There are no pink horses in hell……

Caballo Rojo is out on 9 November on @lovemonk

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p*dis sampler 2018.11

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